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Dec 4, 2024
Category: Archive, Awards & External Networks, CamBRAIN, Professional Development, Public Engagment, Training
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Have you got 3 minutes? Sign up for Fame Lab!

Got a spare three minutes?! FameLab, created by Cheltenham Festivals,is the largest, public facing, science communication competition and training programme in the world and we are absolutely delighted to

Nov 20, 2024
Category: Professional Development, Research, Training
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Labs wanted – University of Texas at Dallas – Summer studentship scheme

The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Honors College is looking to send an annual small cohort of 3-5 undergraduate students to Cambridge for 10-week summer research placements, approximately 2nd June

Nov 8, 2024
Category: Commercial engagement, Funding, Professional Development, Training, Translational Engagement
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BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Account (FTMA): Placement Call 2024

The BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Account (FTMA): Placement Call 2024 is now OPEN

Oct 23, 2024
Category: Archive, Funding, Postdoc Neuroscience Network, Professional Development, Vacancies
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Royal Society Career Development Fellowship

The Career Development Fellowship (CDF) is a four-year, postdoctoral research fellowship that aims to support the retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. Fellowships will provide funding to conduct

Oct 23, 2024
Category: Archive, Policy, Professional Development, Training, Translational Engagement, Vacancies
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Policy Secondment Opportunity for PhD students

The Department of Work and Pensions has a range of secondment projects available across a variety of areas, covering but not limited to: Labour Markets, Universal Credit, Working Age Benefits

Oct 9, 2024
Category: Archive, Commercial engagement, Funding, Professional Development, Translational Engagement
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SYNC – New talent accelerator programme: software solutions to global problems

SYNC SYNC is the new University of Cambridge pathway for entrepreneurially-minded students, PhDs, researchers, and recent alumni to meet, form co-founding teams, and launch new startups.

Oct 9, 2024
Category: Commercial engagement, Professional Development, Research, Training, Translational Engagement
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Cambridge joins forces with ARIA to fast-track radical new technologies to revolutionise brain health

Image credit: Bioelectronics Laboratory, University of Cambridge A major consortium from across the Cambridge life sciences, technology and business worlds has announced a multi-million-pound, three-year collaboration with

Oct 2, 2024
Category: CamBRAIN, Funding, Professional Development, Training
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Parkinson’s UK Early Career Funding

The Cambridge Branch of Parkinson’s UK has launched a new  funding initiative to support early career researchers (particularly PhD students and researchers in their first post-doc position) attend an international

Apr 24, 2024
Category: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing, Open science and reproducibility, Professional Development, Training
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Science Without Anguish – a new blog series on the psychology of wellbeing and productivity in research life

Science Without Anguish – a new blog series on the psychology of wellbeing and productivity in research life This series of 10 blog articles from Michael Coleman discusses dealing

Mar 13, 2024
Category: Archive, CamBRAIN, Professional Development, Training, Volunteer
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Join a SCI-COMM Workshop Committee

Some PhD students are planning to organise a science communication one-day workshop in Cambridge (dates pending but considering May-June) and would love to get more people involved in our organising